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Down With Jazz 2016: Jazz Rising at Down With Jazz at Meeting House Square
Courtesy of Improvised Music Company | Posted on May 11, 2016
Where
Meeting House Square
Down With Jazz
Temple Bar
Dublin
Map
When
Sat, June 4, 2016
20:00
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Musicians
Richie Buckley
saxophoneMikolaj Trzaska
saxophone, baritoneAbout
2016: Jazz Rising
A centenary celebration of rousing and rising, swinging and scatting at Down With Jazz this June Bank holiday weekend in Meeting House Square.
1916 set the scene for a new state for Ireland but also a new sound for the world. It was the birth of Jazz amongst the African-American communities in the United States, and the birth of a new state of mind for Ireland.
From tiny seeds to Giant Steps; Down With Jazz proclaims Free State. Free Jazz. Free Minds.
However, by the 1930s, while jazz flourished abroad, this musical liberation had become demonised by the Irish clergy as ‘devil’s music’, with both state and church colluding to have the music banned from the airwaves and dancehalls of our ‘sacred’ island. Would those culturally and socially oppressive attitudes of the ‘30s have existed if history had allowed us to hold fast to the ideals of the Proclamation? ...